Who would want to become a correctional officer?
• People who want to eat and want their family to eat. In other words, people that want a well-paying job. Why work in a dead-end job for $10 an hour with no security or benefits? • People wanting to work their way up and be street cops, as we already discussed. One advantage is you often are already in the retirement system so your correctional time might count toward your retirement. • People wanting to contribute to society, but perhaps don’t feel like they want the pressures of street work • Military retirees who understand working in a paramilitary environment. • Retired cops. A cop can do 20 years and at that point in their life may not want to face the challenges of the street. He/she can retire, start collecting on their retirement and start a second career and then earn a combined retirement & correction income far exceeding what they made before. In order to do this, one must usually switch to a different retirement system, as most will not let you collect benefits while stil
